Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa insists the provision of free services and water to poor families across South Africa is an emergency intervention to protect the poor ...

Environment Editor at The Australian, Graham Lloyd, claims the measures being put in place to stop electricity prices ...

As we accelerate into an all-electric, all-digital age, the ultimate representation of productive capacity becomes the ...

South Africa’s energy and electricity minister says his department is reviewing the country’s Free Basic Electricity (FBE) framework to potentially quadruple free power allocations for poor households ...

Eskom board chair Mteto Nyati has called for the government to increase the free basic electricity (FBE) grant from 50kWh and for municipalities to ring-fence their electricity budgets to ensure the ...

Eskom Group Chief Executive Dan Marokane has revealed that while nearly 10 million households across South Africa are eligible for free basic electricity, only 2 million are actually receiving it.

The deadline for Free Basic Electricity in 2026 for indigent households is fast approaching. According to City Power in Johannesburg, South Africa’s most populous province, registrations closes on 31 ...

When President Bola Tinubu was reported as saying that he should not receive votes in 2027 if he failed to fix electricity, and there was no rebuttal, I was overjoyed. But one sometimes fears that the ...

A storm of protest is brewing after City Power raised its prepaid electricity prices to the majority of its indigent customers by six to 12 times the inflation rate, and well above Eskom’s prepaid ...

Qualifying individuals and households have up until December 31 to register for free basic electricity (FBE). According to City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena, under the FBE programme, disadvantaged ...